skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the best part of Ben's article:

> I think we as a society are in a far stronger place when it comes to knowing the truth than we have ever been previously, and that is thanks to the Internet…the New York Times doesn’t have the truth, but then again, neither do I, and neither does Amazon.

This is the key insight in news today. You cannot rely on any one source for the full story. You must read multiple perspectives, ideally from different points in the political spectrum.

My father, and likely others who grew up pre-internet, knew this intuitively and always read multiple papers. We should do the same and stop expecting our favourite source to be the final word on a story.
Interesting. What are the sources of your data?
In the current US system, if your employer does not provide (any|sufficient) insurance coverage, you have to get your own and there are a million options all ready to fleece you. It is almost impossible to comparison shop and choose between 100 bad options.

Yes, the mechanics are the same (go to doctor, get a bill), but your purchasing power as individual patient is really small compared to a whole country.
How is the elastic license any more compatible with the needs of other open source projects than the SSPL? Before, elasticsearch and/or kibana were usable together with (A)GPL licensed code. That’s no longer the case, neither under SSPL nor under the elastic license.

The fact that most users use the basic license may well be explained by two things:

A) Your website offers it as the primary download.

B) Elasticsearch without the basic licensed modules lacks severely when it comes to security features. It doesn’t even offer basic auth, let alone TLS or similar.
They just last week announced a partnership with IBM: https://www.ibm.com/products/gitlab-ultimate
> you have to sell to some greater fool for a 10,000% inflated price.

I thought the whole point is you have guaranteed buyers because the groups shorting the stock need to buy eventually.
It's sad the extent to which these problems exacerbated by COVID restrictions are neglected. It would almost seem like the boomers are sacrificing the youth for their own benefit since the virus is only statistically deadly to older people.
Not OP but I was in a similar situation. They certainly wouldn't have encouraged or would have stopped me from talking to strangers online. I understand why, you have to precautions against things like grooming, but on the internet and especially behind text no one knows if you're a 12 year old or a 22 year old with poor writing skills.
Launch HN: Assemble – Project Management for Content Creators
Hi everyone my name is Nate Watkin and I'm the CEO of Assemble.

After 8 years as a commercial and music video producer I became all too aware of the chaotic nature of managing video productions - overseeing crews, budgets, scripts, cast, edits and more - and the lack of one centralized solution that could help.

We wanted to create one seamless, simple and intuitive tool that would allow producers to oversee their entire production in one place, from start to finish.

So we built Assemble from the ground up for video producers - with intuitive features like:
frame specific comments on videos
private feedback threads for internal notes
bulk shifting of calendars
frictionless file sharing

We've spent the last three years making Assemble fluid, easy to use, and a pleasure to share with your collaborators. It also syncs with your favorite tools so you don't have to change your workflow.

Would love to hear everyone's thoughts and feedback. We're also trending on Product Hunt at https://www.producthunt.com/posts/assemble
It’s instantly apparent just by looking at someone, I would imagine. That’s at least part of it.
It is in some states, like Texas. It wouldn't be in CA.

A "quitting fee" is generally illegal throughout the U.S...which is why Revature has the boot camp. Instead of being a quitting fee for leaving the job, the "quitting fee" is characterized legally as reimbursing Revature for the tuition costs of the bootcamp.
By the way, Costco’s prices are pretty good in the current environment, especially in large quantities.
I legitimately can't tell if this is satire, particularly the "self-made" part.

Bezos' parents loaned him a quarter-million dollars in 1995 [1].

Gates' mother, while on the board of directors of United Way, convinced IBM to invest in MS in 1980 [2].

Zuckerberg's parents sent him to the crazy selective and expensive boarding school Philips Exeter Academy and was privately tutored in comp sci before college [3].

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/02/how-jeff-bezos-got-his-paren...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/11/obituaries/mary-gates-64-...

[3] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/09/20/the-face-of-fa...
I agree, either there's something else going on or he's entirely genuine about the mission -- in which case it's unlikely to thrive.

While this business model can work in some industries, in this particular heavily regulated industry, Cuban is either going to discover that it's harder than it looks and fold in a few years, or he's trying to sell a grand vision and offload it for a profit before the cracks in the foundation are discovered.

I would be more inclined to see the mission as genuine if this were launched as a public benefit corporation or B corp (but even then, the promises such companies make of serving the public good can be overblown).
That was my first thought as well. Designer must have been large screen display.
Aside: I've heard about web platform tests, but I never realized that it could be a viable alternative to MDN for representing browser compatibility information. In this case they have a pretty good collection of tests [1] that give you a picture of overall WebRTC compatibility. Of course MDN is still the gold standard and we on web.dev will always link there as our default choice when they do a good job representing browser compatibility data, but in this case they don't seem to have a good table representing the state of WebRTC at large [2] (happy to update the article if it's just an oversight on my part and they do have a good browser compat table somewhere that I missed). Specifically, it seems like the WebRTC API page [3] should have a list of the browser compatibility of each of the interfaces that are mentioned on the page.

[1] https://wpt.fyi/results/webrtc?label=experimental&label=mast...

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebRTC_API

[3] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebRTC_API

Disclosure: I edited the web.dev announcement
Gitlab CE is pretty easy to set up using Docker.

I'm unsure of how big the divide on features is.
ISPs regularly MITM http websites to inject ads (in the US even).
That's what insurance is supposed to be: coverage for the catastrophic cases. This use of insurance for ordinary, everyday medical care is ridiculous. I have insurance on my car in case of a catastrophic collision; can you imagine if I had to deal with them for every oil change and brake job?
That's completely false. I've had to deal with many medical bills in the US last year.
It's every other week, yeah.

Funny, the same word can actually mean both: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/biweekly
The vast majority of healthcare expenditure is preventive or planned care, which is largely fungible. MRIs are fungible. Primary care is fungible. Antibiotics are fungible.

To the extent that healthcare isn't fungible, it's in very specific cases like end-of-life care, cancer, catastrophic surgery, and rare patented drugs. They also account for a tiny minority of overall health expenditure.

We can use different tools across both of those problems.
Sure but that single payer has political motivations and sources of influence which ensure that won't happen.

If concentration of power was good we'd just find a few wise persons to run the country and leave it all up to them. Other than the little snag, the sinle buyer argument would work.

Giving the individual the money to make their choices is a better way to ensure that people get what they want. A universal healthcare plan (irrespective of how it is funded) because different people -- or even the same person at different stages of their life -- don't have the same needs and the same risk profiles.
Devil's Advocate: What makes this any different than human error?
I can describe it. I'm Brazilian, very white, green eyes, brown hair that was lighter when I was younger.

About 30 years ago (wow!), in my late teens I organized a party on a house my aunt recently bought to become her medical practice. We had lots of drinks, some drugs, a DJ, live music and some guests walking over the roof of neighboring houses. Police got called.

When they saw me, young and privileged, they wanted to arrest me. I offered them a beer, they entered the house, one of them played the drum set with his service gun. They drank some fancy cocktails.

They enjoyed themselves for about 15 minutes until they were called on the radio. Then they told me, laughing, I should try to control my guests a little better. Then they went away.

If we weren't a bunch or privileged white kids in an upper middle class neighborhood, they'd most likely arrive shooting, as they do when there are parties in slums.
That is correct. Just tell them you’re going to the pharmacy at the entrance.
The thesis that many Bulls are approaching Gamestop stock with is that the company was fundamentally undervalued prior to the current short-squeeze event. Even after the current spike resolves, a return to a $30 or so share price (up from $5 or so most of this year) gives them plenty of market cap and plenty of time to capture it for a major re-positioning in the market.
That's pretty much what I described. I was prescribed antibiotics for a chronic issue. It made no sense at all, but the DR said it's what he must to do to follow the hospitals guidelines (which are determined by what the insurers want to see). I have gastro issues and modern antibiotics cause me all sorts of problems, so of course I had to deal with the pain and discomfort for 2 weeks all for something that made no difference whatsoever.
What do applied mathematicians mean by random?
A shallow, one-sided take on what happened to the news business. I mean, here's a guy who quotes himself (!) saying,

"I’d go further: I think we as a society are in a far stronger place when it comes to knowing the truth than we have ever been previously, and that is thanks to the Internet"

As his example of this, he appears to the New York Times as his exemplar of a company that's been relatively successful online. Relative to newspapers that have basically failed that is. Comparted to Breitbart, Fox News, and other non-fact based journalism, relatively, well, less successful.

Google is in a sense an aggregator but according to algorithms that it's careful to keep secret. Its main financial goal in doing this is to maximize ad revenue it can extract from the feed, and Google is more successful in that regard than any of the sources of the news it aggregates. Leaving other concerns aside, this does drain ever more revenue out of the business of creating news, since advertisers now choose between buying ads from the aggegator or ads from the source, and no, Google's work hasn't doubled marketing budgets of advertisers.

Facebook controls what people see -- it doesn't aggregate, it segregates. You see what Facebook has determined you want to see, and usually they're right (It would be much better for us as a community if they were wrong much more often and showed everyone things they don't want to see.) Facebook financial goal in choosing what to put in user feeds is maximizing ad revenue for Facebook. This has further drained ad revenue away from sources of content.

The piece claims, hey, the internet was making it harder on news sources before the ascendency of Facebook and Google, though as late as the 1990's newspapers were still a very profitable business. Yeah, Craig's List grabbed a huge share of the classified ad business which traditionally was a major part of newspaper revenue, and newspapers stupidly failed to mount any significant effort to get that revenue back. But Google and Facebook have vastly more effective methods of siphoning off revenue as they've dominated market share and therefore become indispensable for all news outlets.

It not only starves news sources of revenue but favors sources that tell people what they want to hear in a way that excites the audience. In other words, the current sorry state of our political world.
Exactly my first thought too. Micropython's ubluetooth might be usable for this.
People in the US can afford to pay a lot more for healthcare than in India. They just can't afford to pay twice as much as other industrialized countries.
You're not screwed. If you know any working data scientists // MLEs I would really recommend you get feedback from them on your projects. Ask them to do some mock interviews. Way too often I see bootcamp candidates who do well on technical screens but fall apart during in person interviews because they just did what the instructor told them (use docker, put it on github) rather than understanding why people want to see those things.
Great explanation! I had no clue what open graph was, and this succinctly explains it.
One of the great things about accessibility is that it often doesn't just benefit people with disabilities.

My wife and I have watched a lot of TV in the past year with the volume down and captioning on, while we enjoy some down time while our baby is sleeping.

A ramped entrance to a building allows wheelchair-bound folks access, but it also helps able-bodied people using delivery dollies.

Making simple, lightweight web pages makes them accessible to those with older browsers and devices, but it also saves power consumption, time, and frustration for folks on M1 MacBook Pros.
Decontextualizing is just the norm on the internet. I don't think it's a favorite tactic of "the right" as much as it's just something everyone does when having short arguments online. A recent example I noticed is how the Parler deplatforming was boiled down to "it's a private company denying service just like what that cake shop did".

A nuanced and evenhanded discussion just isn't conducive to our neutered attention spans or the desire for upvotes and clap-back repartee.
I think it starts by treating them with respect and engaging with them as human beings with their own minds, thoughts, fears, and concerns. If you approach it through the lens of "How do I get X group to sign up to Y platform", people will quickly figure out that you aren't engaging with them at all. Your well-meant and genuine intentions will go nowhere.

My suggestion is that you can start with what the demographic in question cares about. Then look sincerely at if what you're trying to do actually addresses those real, sincere, valid concerns in a way that's comprehensible to a relatively ignorant person who is perhaps justifiably suspicious of being tricked.
Libertarians would also allow more doctors to be educated. We don't have enough doctors now because the AMA acts as a cartel to limit supply of doctors. Libertarians don't like that either.
You're describing polling. The EU polling its citizens before passing a law is bad how?
Musk and Bezos routinely rape and kill people like Veppers does?
That is true, and I was reading a lot yesterday.

Because of the expected volume we had a different process for responding on social yesterday and I wasn't part of that group.
You actually still don't need an email address to create a Reddit account.

Reddit has stayed true to their word of maintaining the old design, and it's free of the dark patterns in the redesign. Go to https://old.reddit.com/register and just leave the email field blank or if you use the pop-up menu (the thing you get when you click login/register in the top right of the old design), you can click skip on the first screen where it just asks you for your email.
Yeah, class-based paradigm could well be deeply flawed as well. I just wish people could evaluate our situation from all angles instead of following certain narrative only.
My idea for a charging business would be an upscale coffee shop/fast casual restaurant. Like gas stations, you'd make most of your money selling food/drinks. Could it work?
I’m curious if the author thinks that people can actually read the ultra-low-contrast text in the side column.
For starters, I think you're underestimating how much of what we do in the modern world is entirely digital and therefore can be entirely captured in a blockchain. There are decentralized trustless platforms running on Ethereum right now. You can transact currency on a plethora of decentralized exchanges, without all the layers that doing so with an exchange of USD -> RMB requires today. There are pilot programs built around blockchain that allow people to sell excess energy production (e.g. with home solar) back to other people on the "grid" in an entirely decentralized way.

And with tokens that are tied to real-life things, the benefit is that once you've used real-world trust systems (e.g. real-life contracts / lawyers / courts / etc) to tie something to the blockchain, you can (going forward) hand everything over to the trustless and secure system. i.e. You tie your property to the blockchain once, and from then on you don't need to involve all those inefficient systems, you just transact the tied token directly on the blockchain.

Just because it hasn't been done successfully yet doesn't mean it's not viable. How long did the internet exist before [thing that is taken for granted on the internet now] was successful?

Finally, Ethereum launched in 2015, not sure where you're getting 13 years from.
Ask HN: Interesting things you have made or discovered that were powered byGPT-3
There were actually a number of scandals out of India on this front as well:

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/05/12/7222165...

It's extremely hard to enforce GMP and QA/QC from across the world and there's a strong incentive to cheat and lie when it comes to these costly procedures. Whether it'll be any better in a US manufacturing facility is of course up for debate.
It seems fine that they create a standard of their own as long as they also allow others to make use of it and don't wall it in.
I cannot help but be deeply unsettled by the proposal. Isn't that considering willfull ignorance of the world at large considered good mental health then? That is effectively an implication of saying we should reject all mass media.

Really mental health should be considered to have at least two components - 'morale' related to functioning and happiness and 'attunement to reality' based upon perceiving the world as close to as it is as possible essentially. That approach sounds like something which would boost the first at the cost of the second.
FWIW, I'm not an expert on this so take what I say with a grain of salt.

An anchor tag that links to another page but looks like a button is probably fine. So long as you can access them via the keyboard (tabbing to it) and they have a distinct appearance when focused so if you are tabbing through you can see whats active (this is different from the hover attribute).
Tesla tried this and they realized its a bad idea. Standardizing a mechanism like this is insanely complex so for the most part it would be 'per company'.

And even within the vehicles of one company, changing a Model S and Cybertruck battery is very challenge.

Even assuming all of that works, it requires you to totally change the whole engineering on the car. Designing the car to have battery swap makes it far more complex to integrate the battery pack with the vehicle structure and makes it more difficult to protect the battery.

Tesla moved away from even having the option of a swapable battery when they added extra protection on the bottom of the car to prevent more fires and accidents like that.

NIO in China does operate a system like that, but the swap stations are human operated. So you drive up, hand over your car to a person, who drives it into the swap station for you and returns it.

Its also incredibly expensive to build these stations, let alone operate 1000s of them.
I'm sure the designers who work on GDS[0] and its design system do. You are probably right that most don't, they should in my opinion. Of course you are also right that good teams will work together on this. I think the best designers have an understanding of HTML/CSS or the native toolkits if they work on Android/iOS. They know when the user experience will be signficantly improved by a custom component and work with their team to make it accessible and good in those case. They also know when not to reinvent a select to make it look slightly better.

This subthread is about why divs are used for buttons and why developers reimplement existing HTML components poorly. Good designers help their teams avoid this, good engineers work with their designers to avoid it.

0: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/government-digit...
Close to $0.03 USD:

https://www.sastimedicine.com/salt-alternatives/5785-736518/...
They sell generics, but I don't believe they actually make them.

Allow me to clarify: CostCo sells everything at a fixed profit margin (I believe it's around 18% but I could be mistaken). I have no idea where their generics come from, I doubt they manufacture themselves, so before the CostCo markup they are subject to the same inflated prices you'll find anywhere else before the pill reaches the drugstore or your doctor or whatever.

What I've been imagining, specifically, is generics manufacturer that applied a fixed profit margin — "cost plus" — to their products. I guess that's not precisely the CostCo model, but you get my drift now.
OO in Python is mostly pointless
>Which degree should we start judging at?

Morality doesn't need to be codified into exact terms in order to be relevant. At what point does killing become a crime? When you kill an ant for no reason? When you kill an animal for food? Or when you kill another human for survival? Intuitively I know the differences. But articulating my intuition into words can lead to loop holes so I'd rather not.

The moral module in your mind is not perfect but when looking at Ikea, it's telling me Ikea is an getting an unfair advantage with this loop hole and it's ethically wrong. That's enough for most people.

>It's either legal or it's not. If you want the "abuse" to stop, then elect the legislators that will make the loopholes illegal.

You don't need a law to tell the difference from right and wrong and nothing is as simple as electing the right person to make things right again. Who do I elect to save dying infrastructure in the US? Who do I elect to stop corporations from paying less taxes than me? It's not so clear cut, what I'm voting for or how to fix this.

I don't know where you're reasoning comes from, but one thing is for sure. I'd share your exact attitude if I'm a beneficiary of said loop holes in laws. My mind would twist the obvious logic to justify my own crimes if I myself were the ass hole that was committing them.
> Tesla has done a phenomenal job making it easy and convenient to own and drive an EV.

As they say, your mileage may vary.

There are a total of three (3) Tesla charger stations in all of Ireland. That's one location per 2.3 million people.

For any locals wondering: Ballacolla, Birdhill, Castlebellingham.
Show HN: Jina – Build Decentralized Embedding-Based Search System in Minutes
This isn't the case everywhere. It depends on which state you live in
TheBrain 12 Beta: Concept Discovery and Advanced Note-Linking
"A notes editor with non-linear file management and powerful graph visualisation features."
Don't disagree with you - the markets are heavily balanced in favor of entrenched players who have informational, scale and timing advantages (ie wall street). I do think that there's something else at play here ... we will have to see what happens over the next couple of weeks as things shake out.
Got it thanks for answering